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"Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is always preoccupied and pre-empted by the tiny pinpoint on the face of the globe called Down East. They try to live not in such a manner that they will eventually be welcomed into Paradise, but only so that someday they can go home to Maine."
-- Louise Dickinson Rich

Filed under: “Things That Make My Head Explode”

Tag lines and phrases du-jour at work. Last week, the head-exploding word was Kaizen. The week before that, it was “brickyard” (in reference to the sardine room they packed us into to do systems testing).

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Bring to the table – As in, “At the next meeting we’d really like to see what you bring to the table.” No you wouldn’t. That’s why all I’m bringing is my can of Diet Coke and a notepad to write mean poems about my co-workers.

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“Let’s make sure we’re all on the same page.” You’re an anal PhD with no common sense who shouldn’t be a department manager. We will never be on the same page.